Saturday, March 07, 2015

Infected Knee

When I had my first knee
replacement I was walking without crutches with in 8 days. How different
this replacement is 4 weeks later back in hospital. My knee became
inflamed so I visited the surgeon last Monday to be told that only 1% of
knee operations end up this way so I am unusual. So what to do ? Well
it seems if the infection has gone deep I would have to have the knee
removed replaced with a Block for 8 to 10 weeks to get rid of
infection, then have another knee replacement. They took various
blood samples and I had to return on the Friday, those 4 days of
waiting were the worst time in my life and I returned to using my
Rosary and praying to Mum and Dad. Friday came and I resigned myself
to the worst but it seems my prayers were answered. The blood test
came back and yes there was an infection but the second blood test
showed a significant drop. So as as private patient I was taken
straight to surgery where they tried to aspirate some fluid to test
for infection which proved negative Thank God. It seems the infection
is superficial but there was still some concern, so I am now in
hospital for up to 3 days having massive amount of antibiotics being
poured into me intro-venally every 6 hours for up to 72 hours. So
you can imagine having antibiotics at 1.30 am taking an hour to drain
through and then being woken a 6.30am I am a very tired man. Whats
worse is the boredom there is only so much day time TV you can watch. I
since found out that being diabetic did not help matters as diabetics
do not heal well.

Any rate hopefully out
Monday maybe on a crutch for a little while longer but I will get
there in the end